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Irregular verb

wake

/weɪk/

Base
wake
Past simple
woke / waked
Past participle
woken / waked

Usage

woke and woken are the standard modern forms; waked is rare and mostly limited to older or literary English.

Meaning

  • to stop sleeping or make someone stop sleeping

Example

I woke before the alarm.

She woke the whole house with the noise.

He has woken up early all week.